○  malcolm x: the ballot or the bullet  ○

country without a dime in return -- i mean without a dime in return. you let the white man walk around here talking about how rich this country is, but you never stop to think how it got rich so quick. it got rich because you made it rich.

you take the people who are in this audience right now. they're poor. we're all poor as individuals. our weekly salary individually amounts to hardly anything. but if you take the salary of everyone in here collectively, it'll fill up a whole lot of baskets. it's a lot of wealth. if you can collect the wages of just these people right here for a year, you'll be rich -- richer than rich. when you look at it like that, think how rich uncle sam had to become, not with this handful, but millions of black people. your and my mother and father, who didn't work an eight-hour shift, but worked from "can't see" in the morning until "can't see" at night, and worked for nothing, making the white man rich, making uncle sam rich. this is our investment. this is our contribution, our blood.

not only did we give of our free labor, we gave of our blood. every time he had a call to arms, we were the first ones in uniform. we died on every battlefield the white man had. we have made a greater sacrifice than anybody who's standing up in america today. we have made a greater contribution and have collected less. civil rights, for those of us whose philosophy is black nationalism, means: "give it to us now. don't wait for next year. give it to us yesterday, and that's not fast enough."

i might stop right here to point out one thing. whenever you're going after something that belongs to you, anyone who's depriving you of the right to have it is a criminal. understand that. whenever you are going after something that is yours, you are within your legal rights to lay claim to it. and anyone who puts forth any effort to deprive you of that which is yours, is breaking the law, is a criminal. and this was pointed out by the supreme court

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